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| I'm home again. It's so nice to be back with my family! I missed everyone a lot this semester. Kinda funny... all semester I missed my family and friends here, and now I'm missing the people who became my family and friends while I was there. I got an e-mail from Samson (one of the guys I played volleyball with) on Monday, and today I got an e-mail from Prince, one of our choir masters from Heavenly Echoes. Speaking of Heavenly Echoes... I heard a recording today of another group singing one of the songs we learned. So as nice as it is to be home, a part of me stayed behind in Africa. It seems like daily I'm being reminded of what I left behind, but that is a good thing, I think. I want to go back some day... to visit Zambia, and maybe live in Kenya. There is a big mission hospital in Kenya that I would LOVE to work in.
Some thoughts I had over the semester and that I was reminded of last night:
Several times over the course of this last semester I just wished I knew what God had planned for me... I wished I knew how things were going to turn out, and this thought occurred to me: Our lives are kind of like a puzzle that we are given one piece at a time. Often the pieces don't make sense, but God knows what kind of a picture it is going to make in the end, and every once in a while the pieces line up so we can catch a glimpse of part of the picture. God has a plan, and He's the ONLY one who knows that plan. It's our job to take the pieces He gives us and trust Him to make it all turn out.
I'm heading to Searcy and then Dallas tomorrow for Jonathan and Jillian's wedding. I'll be riding with several of my fellow HIZers and get to see a few more while I am there! Woot! I miss them a lot. They became my family while I was in Africa, and I miss them. You get used to seeing the same people every day for three months, and it's weird not seeing them!
now on to cookies. :)
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| God has a funny way of doing things, sometimes. He knows what we need before we do, and even when we think that something is exactly what we did NOT need. Things have come at me this semester that I did not want, but now I can see how it is all working out for the best. I am learning so much, and hopefully growing a lot.
I keep getting interupted... first I had to leave for chapel, and now I have class in just 10 minutes. The George Benson Christian College chorus, of which I am a part, sang today in chapel. We sang in Tonga, Bemba, English, and maybe one more language as well. Since we don't speak those languages, we wrote down all the words at practice last night. Cabalo, one of the volleyball guys, translated a couple of the songs for us before chapel. It was nice knowing what we were singing! Well, we sang the songs that they told us last night we were singing, and then they started another at the end that we did NOT sing last night, and have only sang three or four times. I was definitely doing my best to read lips to figure out the words.
Not looking forward to Christian Home today. Course, I usually don't look forward to it. We're starting in on the chapters about sexuality, but apparently aren't going to be discussing them in class, at least not yet. I wish we could have a day off from classes. Those 9 days off were TERRIBLE for my focus and work ethic when it comes to school work. I have two chapters to read, one paper to write, several events to attend, and I should really study my Tonga. We'll see how much of that I actually get done!
This weekend.... play volleyball this afternoon and go to the match in Kalomo in the morning, go to Leonard's village that afternoon for traditional dancing, watch the Rugby world cup (Go South Africa!), spend all day Sunday at a village church, get all my schoolwork done for monday. Fun fun. Now off to class.
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| I'M IN AFRICA!!!!! How amazing is that?!? It's beautiful, and I'm getting to do so much.
Next weekend, white water rafting on the Zambezi followed by a safari in botswana. The next weekend, beach volleyball at some lake or other. Can't wait!
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| It's already the end of July. In a month I'll be getting ready to head to Searcy for my last weekend on campus before I leave the country. It's kinda scary, kinda exciting. I'm in that ready to go but not ready to leave stage. I haven't had the quality time with my family and friends that I should have, and it's partly my fault, partly the fault of everybody growing up and getting jobs and getting ready to leave themselves. But I'm gonna make the most out of these last few weeks at home. Gonna get a lot done, spend a lot of time with family and friends, and hopefully make some money too. :) No more weekends off for me, I'm afraid, but I'll still have Friday's off, so if you are free...
for now, i gotta get going. lots to get done yet today, and I work tonight. later!
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| no one is ever on here anymore. oh well. not like i ever give much of an update anyway.
lots has been going on in my life and in my head. lots of thinking that still needs to be done. some things need some resolution, but i'm not sure how to go about getting it. there are words i would love to say, but somehow they never leave my head. that's nothing new, though. I've always been that way. and it's backfired enough when i have said the things i was thinking, that i'm a lot more careful with what i say than i used to be. and for now i will continue to be careful.
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